Table of Contents

Part 1 The Necessity of Justice; Chapter 1 Defining Democratic Police and Policing; Chapter 2 Police in the Sociopolitical World; Chapter 3 Policing According to the Difference Principle; Part 2 The Police As an Institution: Theory; Chapter 4 Studying Democratic Policing; Chapter 5 Structural Features of American Policing; Chapter 6 Theorizing Policing; Chapter 7 The Reform of Policing; Part 3 The Police As an Institution: Practice; Chapter 8 Practice and Poesis; Chapter 9 The Dynamics and Stability of Modern Policing; Chapter 10 Nondemocratic Policing; Part 4 The Need for the Illusion of Justice; Chapter 11 Conclusion; Chapter 12 Epilogue A Motion to Reconsider the “Police” Signifier, Michael W. Raphael;

About the Author

Peter K. Manning is the Brooks Professor of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University-Boston. He is the author of Policing Technology: An Ethnographic Study of Crime Mapping (2007).